A jumpchain quest without any frills. Join us as we go about journeying this alleyway of the multiverse.
JC Unplugged (A Jumpchain Quest)
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The endless white space was overwhelming, but painless. Instead of a bright sun burning your eyes it was more like you were utterly transfixed by its magnitude.
Regardless, your more grounded senses knew that this was not where you were but moments ago. The place you found yourself now was clearly not a 'somewhere' from anywhere on your earth.
The stillness and silence gave you nothing to go off of, and your disembodiment did not help things either. Your thoughts were all you had, and that meant precious little when you could do nothing with them but dwell on the impossibility and helplessness of this situation.
When it all might have become too much for you to bear, suddenly knowledge entered your brain to enlighten you on your predicament.
You were in a transitory space, this was your last stop before you were to go out onto a journey spanning this alleyway of the multiverse. Powers, Items, Skills, Companions, Challenges, Adventure, Quests; worlds of such depth and variety of being as to last as many lifetimes as you would care to live.
All this and more was but moments away.
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Welcome to JC Unplugged (A Jumpchain Quest)
My goal with this quest is to embark on a Jumpchain with you all without any frills or modifications. I plan on not utilizing any meta supplement (even classics like body-mod and warehouse), alternate rule-sets, challenges, or other such documents.
Here's the other main thing I'm going to do to hopefully better organize this quest. When a vote is put out there's always going to be at least a 24 hour moratorium where people can discuss the options and generate write-ins, then I'm going to post a temp-threadmark with the choices listed again including any write-ins from which then voting may commence. This way all choices/plans can be collected in one place and everyone will get an alert once voting opens.
I can't promise a consistent writing schedule off the bat here, but I hope to get a better understanding of things as I continue to work on this. What I can say is that I'm going to my best to respect the engagement I receive here through putting updates out when I can.
I also want to say from the start that this is as much an experiment and practice in writing longer form fiction and running a quest as it is a story; this is both my first quest and my first real crack at a long term project on here. Feedback and critique is expected and I'll do my best to use it all to the best of my abilities. But please do understand that beyond anything else I just want to work on writing more and more consistantly.
Finally, I'll underline that this first vote is going to heavily define the tone, pace, and overall character of this quest.
Thank you all ahead of time for reading and working on this together with me, I look forward to what's to come ahead!
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Who are you?:
[ ] Devyn Dean – College Senior focused on their studies above most anything else
[ ] Sal Ridley – Sandwich artisan with low aspirations but high contentment
[ ] Averill Grier – Lowly office worker on the grind for something more
[ ] Remington Malone – Drifter without a care about tomorrow
[ ] Write-In
What do you desire from this chain?
[ ] A slow life of peace and plenty
[ ] Adventure and exploration
[ ] Power, conquest, victory
[ ] To create wonders
[ ] Overcoming all who might prove a challenge
[ ] Write-In
What is the path that you will take to achieve this?
[ ] Slow and steady wins the race [You'll making sure to keep things safe, and then slowly progress towards more dangerous places]
[ ] I want a challenge, to push myself [You won't dive into the deep end. but you won't stay in the shallows to start either]
[ ] Move fast and break things (maybe even myself…) [Consequences and danger be damned]
[ ] Write-In
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{I'm going to give a longer time on this first vote's moratorium period to give time for people to find this thread; expect no more than 3 days though before I post the next thread with the voting final options}
Regardless, your more grounded senses knew that this was not where you were but moments ago. The place you found yourself now was clearly not a 'somewhere' from anywhere on your earth.
The stillness and silence gave you nothing to go off of, and your disembodiment did not help things either. Your thoughts were all you had, and that meant precious little when you could do nothing with them but dwell on the impossibility and helplessness of this situation.
When it all might have become too much for you to bear, suddenly knowledge entered your brain to enlighten you on your predicament.
You were in a transitory space, this was your last stop before you were to go out onto a journey spanning this alleyway of the multiverse. Powers, Items, Skills, Companions, Challenges, Adventure, Quests; worlds of such depth and variety of being as to last as many lifetimes as you would care to live.
All this and more was but moments away.
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Welcome to JC Unplugged (A Jumpchain Quest)
My goal with this quest is to embark on a Jumpchain with you all without any frills or modifications. I plan on not utilizing any meta supplement (even classics like body-mod and warehouse), alternate rule-sets, challenges, or other such documents.
Here's the other main thing I'm going to do to hopefully better organize this quest. When a vote is put out there's always going to be at least a 24 hour moratorium where people can discuss the options and generate write-ins, then I'm going to post a temp-threadmark with the choices listed again including any write-ins from which then voting may commence. This way all choices/plans can be collected in one place and everyone will get an alert once voting opens.
I can't promise a consistent writing schedule off the bat here, but I hope to get a better understanding of things as I continue to work on this. What I can say is that I'm going to my best to respect the engagement I receive here through putting updates out when I can.
I also want to say from the start that this is as much an experiment and practice in writing longer form fiction and running a quest as it is a story; this is both my first quest and my first real crack at a long term project on here. Feedback and critique is expected and I'll do my best to use it all to the best of my abilities. But please do understand that beyond anything else I just want to work on writing more and more consistantly.
Finally, I'll underline that this first vote is going to heavily define the tone, pace, and overall character of this quest.
Thank you all ahead of time for reading and working on this together with me, I look forward to what's to come ahead!
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Who are you?:
[ ] Devyn Dean – College Senior focused on their studies above most anything else
[ ] Sal Ridley – Sandwich artisan with low aspirations but high contentment
[ ] Averill Grier – Lowly office worker on the grind for something more
[ ] Remington Malone – Drifter without a care about tomorrow
[ ] Write-In
What do you desire from this chain?
[ ] A slow life of peace and plenty
[ ] Adventure and exploration
[ ] Power, conquest, victory
[ ] To create wonders
[ ] Overcoming all who might prove a challenge
[ ] Write-In
What is the path that you will take to achieve this?
[ ] Slow and steady wins the race [You'll making sure to keep things safe, and then slowly progress towards more dangerous places]
[ ] I want a challenge, to push myself [You won't dive into the deep end. but you won't stay in the shallows to start either]
[ ] Move fast and break things (maybe even myself…) [Consequences and danger be damned]
[ ] Write-In
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{I'm going to give a longer time on this first vote's moratorium period to give time for people to find this thread; expect no more than 3 days though before I post the next thread with the voting final options}
- Location
- On Earth
Devyn Dean speaks to me the most.
The End Goal should be simple, a spark. Who doesn't want to be a god?
The Best strategy for a good quest, would be move fast and break things.
So, that's what I'd vote for in a general plan.
The End Goal should be simple, a spark. Who doesn't want to be a god?
The Best strategy for a good quest, would be move fast and break things.
So, that's what I'd vote for in a general plan.
MedievalParadox
Echeladder rank: Bravesprout
- Location
- Nowhere Important
Question. Can we use characters from media as our protag? If so I have one In mind for this quest. Or at least someone who could be interesting to see as a Jumper.
Yeah, feel free to pitch it and if they get voted in I'll run with it.
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MedievalParadox
Echeladder rank: Bravesprout
- Location
- Nowhere Important
I'm thinking Sunny from Omori. With a desire to make wonders and craving a challenge.
I'll say that I haven't played Omori, so if this did win I'd take the time to play through or watch through a full playthrough first before continuing here.
[ ] Plan: Average Isekai
-[ ] Averill Grier – Lowly office worker on the grind for something more
-[ ] Adventure and exploration
-[ ] Slow and steady wins the race [You'll making sure to keep things safe, and then slowly progress towards more dangerous places]
Not sure whether Voting is open yet, will change on request. Also if there's any problem with the formatting, please let me know.
-[ ] Averill Grier – Lowly office worker on the grind for something more
-[ ] Adventure and exploration
-[ ] Slow and steady wins the race [You'll making sure to keep things safe, and then slowly progress towards more dangerous places]
Not sure whether Voting is open yet, will change on request. Also if there's any problem with the formatting, please let me know.
Voting probably won't open for another day or two to give more time for people/plans to trickle in. I'm new to running a quest but to my eyes formatting is all good.
[ ] Plan: Goddesse of the forge
-[ ] Sal Ridley – Sandwich artisan with low aspirations but high contentment
-[ ] To create wonders
-[ ] Slow and steady wins the race [You'll making sure to keep things safe, and then slowly progress towards more dangerous places]
-[ ] Sal Ridley – Sandwich artisan with low aspirations but high contentment
-[ ] To create wonders
-[ ] Slow and steady wins the race [You'll making sure to keep things safe, and then slowly progress towards more dangerous places]
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[] Plan: I Crave Creation.
-[] Write-in: Nares of Pale Flesh-Mutant artist living in a communist regime on a post-apocalyptic planet, craving artistic freedom.
-[] To create wonders.
-[] I want a challenge, to push myself [You won't dive into the deep end. but you won't stay in the shallows to start either].
Is the plan okay @cranical form ?
-[] Write-in: Nares of Pale Flesh-Mutant artist living in a communist regime on a post-apocalyptic planet, craving artistic freedom.
-[] To create wonders.
-[] I want a challenge, to push myself [You won't dive into the deep end. but you won't stay in the shallows to start either].
Is the plan okay @cranical form ?
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This is more than okay, this is amazing.
-[ ] Averill Grier – Lowly office worker on the grind for something more
-[ ] Adventure and exploration
-[ ] I want a challenge, to push myself [You won't dive into the deep end. but you won't stay in the shallows to start either]
I was thinking in going slow and steady, but i think it would work better in going a bit faster
-[ ] Adventure and exploration
-[ ] I want a challenge, to push myself [You won't dive into the deep end. but you won't stay in the shallows to start either]
I was thinking in going slow and steady, but i think it would work better in going a bit faster
I got a new Plan
[] Plan: The Wandering Philosopher.
-[ ] Write-in: Angron Primarch of the World Eaters
-[ ] Write-in: To Undrstand the nature of freedom
-[ ] Slow and steady wins the race [You'll making sure to keep things safe, and then slowly progress towards more dangerous places]
[] Plan: The Wandering Philosopher.
-[ ] Write-in: Angron Primarch of the World Eaters
-[ ] Write-in: To Undrstand the nature of freedom
-[ ] Slow and steady wins the race [You'll making sure to keep things safe, and then slowly progress towards more dangerous places]
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- Pronouns
- He/Him
[] Plan: The True Jumpchain Experience
-[] Averill Grier – Lowly office worker on the grind for something more
-[] Adventure and exploration
-[] I want a challenge, to push myself [You won't dive into the deep end. but you won't stay in the shallows to start either]
It is nice to see a Jumpchain quest around. I like bababoi's plan, but I put it in a plan format for future people to vote.
I do have a few obnoxious questions to ask quickly. While I imagine it will be answered rather quickly once we get past this post, is the chain being 'guided' by an entity to which we owe something (i.e. the Jumpchan "you must entertain me" situation), or is it going to be completely freeform?
Additionally, is there plans to limit supplements? Are we only going to have access to the bodymod, or are we going to have access to the warehouse and other ones as well?
-[] Averill Grier – Lowly office worker on the grind for something more
-[] Adventure and exploration
-[] I want a challenge, to push myself [You won't dive into the deep end. but you won't stay in the shallows to start either]
It is nice to see a Jumpchain quest around. I like bababoi's plan, but I put it in a plan format for future people to vote.
I do have a few obnoxious questions to ask quickly. While I imagine it will be answered rather quickly once we get past this post, is the chain being 'guided' by an entity to which we owe something (i.e. the Jumpchan "you must entertain me" situation), or is it going to be completely freeform?
Additionally, is there plans to limit supplements? Are we only going to have access to the bodymod, or are we going to have access to the warehouse and other ones as well?
Always happy to answer questions, and thank you for formatting their submission.
For your first question, there is no jumpchan or other entity in play here.
For the second question you can refer back to the intro, the plan is for no meta supplements to be used; including Body-mod and Warehouse.
Using one jump to supplement another, like using Generic Spacebattles as a supplement for another jump, is fair game. However, any supplement that isn't itself a jump is going to be avoided here.
[] Sal Ridley
[] A Slow Life of Peace and Plenty
Not enough JumpChains explore this concept IMO
[] Slow and steady wins the race
Just because a Jumper is taking a slow chain doesn't mean no conflict.
Where's my farmer Jumper in a heated rivalry with thier neighbor from down the way. Competing to win their annual harvest festival with thier prize winning sow?
[] A Slow Life of Peace and Plenty
Not enough JumpChains explore this concept IMO
[] Slow and steady wins the race
Just because a Jumper is taking a slow chain doesn't mean no conflict.
Where's my farmer Jumper in a heated rivalry with thier neighbor from down the way. Competing to win their annual harvest festival with thier prize winning sow?
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One final plan
[] Plan: The New Dawn
-[ ] Write-in: Mankar Camoran
-[ ] Write-in: Rebuild The Order Of The Mythic Dawn and prepare to begin the Dawn Era again
-[ ] Slow and steady wins the race [You'll making sure to keep things safe, and then slowly progress towards more dangerous places]
[] Plan: The New Dawn
-[ ] Write-in: Mankar Camoran
-[ ] Write-in: Rebuild The Order Of The Mythic Dawn and prepare to begin the Dawn Era again
-[ ] Slow and steady wins the race [You'll making sure to keep things safe, and then slowly progress towards more dangerous places]
I think with the number of plans we're at now I'm going to move the schedule up a bit and open the vote around 7pm EST tonight (in 2 hours as of this posting).
So if anyone has any other additions or edits to make here, last call.
So if anyone has any other additions or edits to make here, last call.
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First Vote is Open
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Thank you to all who contributed; voting is now open!
Voting will close in 24 hours at 7pm est tomorrow.
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Original Options:
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Proposed Plans:
[] Plan: First Choice
-[ ] Devyn Dean – College Senior focused on their studies above most anything else
-[ ] Write-in: The End Goal should be simple, a spark. Who doesn't want to be a god?
-[ ] Move fast and break things (maybe even myself…) [Consequences and danger be damned]
[] Plan: Sunny Day
-[ ] Write-in: Sunny from Omori
-[ ] To create wonders
-[ ] I want a challenge, to push myself
[] Plan: Average Isekai
-[ ] Averill Grier – Lowly office worker on the grind for something more
-[ ] Adventure and exploration
-[ ] Slow and steady wins the race
[] Plan: Goddesse of the forge
-[ ] Sal Ridley – Sandwich artisan with low aspirations but high contentment
-[ ] To create wonders
-[ ] Slow and steady wins the race [You'll making sure to keep things safe, and then slowly progress towards more dangerous places]
[] Plan: I Crave Creation.
-[] Write-in: Nares of Pale Flesh-Mutant artist living in a communist regime on a post-apocalyptic planet, craving artistic freedom.
-[] To create wonders.
-[] I want a challenge, to push myself
[] Plan: Faster Average Isekai
-[ ] Averill Grier – Lowly office worker on the grind for something more
-[ ] Adventure and exploration
-[ ] I want a challenge, to push myself [You won't dive into the deep end. but you won't stay in the shallows to start either]
[] Plan: The Wandering Philosopher.
-[ ] Write-in: Angron Primarch of the World Eaters
-[ ] Write-in: To Undrstand the nature of freedom
-[ ] Slow and steady wins the race [You'll making sure to keep things safe, and then slowly progress towards more dangerous places]
[] Plan: The True Jumpchain Experience
-[] Averill Grier – Lowly office worker on the grind for something more
-[] Adventure and exploration
-[] I want a challenge, to push myself [You won't dive into the deep end. but you won't stay in the shallows to start either]
[] Plan: Slice of Life
-[ ] Sal Ridley
-[ ] A Slow Life of Peace and Plenty
-[ ] Slow and steady wins the race
[] Plan: The New Dawn
-[ ] Write-in: Mankar Camoran
-[ ] Write-in: Rebuild The Order Of The Mythic Dawn and prepare to begin the Dawn Era again
-[ ] Slow and steady wins the race
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{I will caution that for Sunny, Nares, Angron, and Mankar; as I'm unfamiliar with them their winning will delay updates a bit more compared to others as I'll need to spend time to learn about and understand them.}
Voting will close in 24 hours at 7pm est tomorrow.
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Original Options:
Who are you?:
[ ] Devyn Dean – College Senior focused on their studies above most anything else
[ ] Sal Ridley – Sandwich artisan with low aspirations but high contentment
[ ] Averill Grier – Lowly office worker on the grind for something more
[ ] Remington Malone – Drifter without a care about tomorrow
What do you desire from this chain?
[ ] A slow life of peace and plenty
[ ] Adventure and exploration
[ ] Power, conquest, victory
[ ] To create wonders
[ ] Overcoming all who might prove a challenge
What is the path that you will take to achieve this?
[ ] Slow and steady wins the race [You'll making sure to keep things safe, and then slowly progress towards more dangerous places]
[ ] I want a challenge, to push myself [You won't dive into the deep end. but you won't stay in the shallows to start either]
[ ] Move fast and break things (maybe even myself…) [Consequences and danger be damned]
[ ] Devyn Dean – College Senior focused on their studies above most anything else
[ ] Sal Ridley – Sandwich artisan with low aspirations but high contentment
[ ] Averill Grier – Lowly office worker on the grind for something more
[ ] Remington Malone – Drifter without a care about tomorrow
What do you desire from this chain?
[ ] A slow life of peace and plenty
[ ] Adventure and exploration
[ ] Power, conquest, victory
[ ] To create wonders
[ ] Overcoming all who might prove a challenge
What is the path that you will take to achieve this?
[ ] Slow and steady wins the race [You'll making sure to keep things safe, and then slowly progress towards more dangerous places]
[ ] I want a challenge, to push myself [You won't dive into the deep end. but you won't stay in the shallows to start either]
[ ] Move fast and break things (maybe even myself…) [Consequences and danger be damned]
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Proposed Plans:
[] Plan: First Choice
-[ ] Devyn Dean – College Senior focused on their studies above most anything else
-[ ] Write-in: The End Goal should be simple, a spark. Who doesn't want to be a god?
-[ ] Move fast and break things (maybe even myself…) [Consequences and danger be damned]
[] Plan: Sunny Day
-[ ] Write-in: Sunny from Omori
-[ ] To create wonders
-[ ] I want a challenge, to push myself
[] Plan: Average Isekai
-[ ] Averill Grier – Lowly office worker on the grind for something more
-[ ] Adventure and exploration
-[ ] Slow and steady wins the race
[] Plan: Goddesse of the forge
-[ ] Sal Ridley – Sandwich artisan with low aspirations but high contentment
-[ ] To create wonders
-[ ] Slow and steady wins the race [You'll making sure to keep things safe, and then slowly progress towards more dangerous places]
[] Plan: I Crave Creation.
-[] Write-in: Nares of Pale Flesh-Mutant artist living in a communist regime on a post-apocalyptic planet, craving artistic freedom.
-[] To create wonders.
-[] I want a challenge, to push myself
[] Plan: Faster Average Isekai
-[ ] Averill Grier – Lowly office worker on the grind for something more
-[ ] Adventure and exploration
-[ ] I want a challenge, to push myself [You won't dive into the deep end. but you won't stay in the shallows to start either]
[] Plan: The Wandering Philosopher.
-[ ] Write-in: Angron Primarch of the World Eaters
-[ ] Write-in: To Undrstand the nature of freedom
-[ ] Slow and steady wins the race [You'll making sure to keep things safe, and then slowly progress towards more dangerous places]
[] Plan: The True Jumpchain Experience
-[] Averill Grier – Lowly office worker on the grind for something more
-[] Adventure and exploration
-[] I want a challenge, to push myself [You won't dive into the deep end. but you won't stay in the shallows to start either]
[] Plan: Slice of Life
-[ ] Sal Ridley
-[ ] A Slow Life of Peace and Plenty
-[ ] Slow and steady wins the race
[] Plan: The New Dawn
-[ ] Write-in: Mankar Camoran
-[ ] Write-in: Rebuild The Order Of The Mythic Dawn and prepare to begin the Dawn Era again
-[ ] Slow and steady wins the race
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{I will caution that for Sunny, Nares, Angron, and Mankar; as I'm unfamiliar with them their winning will delay updates a bit more compared to others as I'll need to spend time to learn about and understand them.}
[X] Plan: I Crave Creation.
-[X] Write-in: Nares of Pale Flesh-Mutant artist living in a communist regime on a post-apocalyptic planet, craving artistic freedom.
-[X] To create wonders.
-[X] I want a challenge, to push myself.
-[X] Write-in: Nares of Pale Flesh-Mutant artist living in a communist regime on a post-apocalyptic planet, craving artistic freedom.
-[X] To create wonders.
-[X] I want a challenge, to push myself.
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Oh, I should had mentioned this before, but Nares is original character, he isn't from any series. What I described about him is basically everything, just mutated artist trying to live in a post-apocalyptic regime and wanting to finally be able to express themselves freely with their work. Feel free to add whatever you want about Nares and to present/create deeper aspect of their personality in whatever way you want. You can also ask me directly about things and I will answer and help.
[X] Plan: I Crave Creation.
-[X] Write-in: Nares of Pale Flesh-Mutant artist living in a communist regime on a post-apocalyptic planet, craving artistic freedom.
-[X] To create wonders.
-[X] I want a challenge, to push myself.
[X] Plan: The True Jumpchain Experience
-[X] Averill Grier – Lowly office worker on the grind for something more
-[X] Adventure and exploration
-[X] I want a challenge, to push myself [You won't dive into the deep end. but you won't stay in the shallows to start either]
I have a question: Do we get to pick the world we are traveling to?
-[X] Averill Grier – Lowly office worker on the grind for something more
-[X] Adventure and exploration
-[X] I want a challenge, to push myself [You won't dive into the deep end. but you won't stay in the shallows to start either]
I have a question: Do we get to pick the world we are traveling to?
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- Location
- On Earth
[X] Plan: First Choice
You need X in the box like this [X]
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